CAF: Togo officially disqualified from Nations Cup
Posted by admin on Jan 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Player calls CAF decision ‘ridiculous’
TOGO have been officially disqualified from the African Nations Cup after the squad flew home on Sunday following the deadly gun attack on their bus in Cabinda two days earlier.
“They are disqualified. This group (B) is a three-team tournament,” Confederation of African Football (CAF) co-ordinator Yaouba Amoa told reporters on Monday.
Togo’s assistant...
Togo ‘will be disqualified’
Posted by admin on Jan 12, 2010 | 1 Comment
TOGO will be disqualified from the African Cup of Nations if they do not show up for today’s Group B match against Ghana in Cabinda, the Confederation of African Football said.
Togo’s opponents Ghana have been told to proceed as if the match, scheduled to kick off at 6.30pm UK time, was still going ahead, even though Togo left Angola on Sunday evening to return home following the deadly attack on their team...
African Nations Cup ‘will go ahead’ despite Togo shooting
Posted by admin on Jan 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment
THE African Cup of Nations will go ahead despite an attack by gunmen on the bus carrying the Togo team as the players entered the host country Angola for the tournament, the organisers CAF said.
“Our first priority is the safety of the players but the tournament will go ahead,” CAF spokesman Suleimanu Habubu said in Luanda.
A bus driver was killed in the gun attack on Friday shortly after the Togo team crossed...
Togo withdraw from African Cup 2010
Posted by admin on Jan 10, 2010 | 1 Comment
TOGO have withdrawn from the African Nations Cup in Angola following the machine gun attack on their team bus on Friday, with the death toll now understood to have risen to four.
The team bus was attacked by rebels after crossing the border from the Democratic Republic of Congo into the Angolan enclave of Cabinda ahead of the tournament.
There have been conflicting reports about the identity of those shot, but Togo assistant...
Goalkeeper ‘dies in Togo gun attack’
Posted by admin on Jan 09, 2010 | 3 Comments
TOGO goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale has reportedly died from gunshot wounds sustained in an ambush on the team bus in Angola, bringing the death toll from the attack to four.
Two members of Togo’s national team delegation and a driver also died following an ambush on the team’s bus as it travelled to the African Cup of Nations.
Striker Jonathan Ayite told RMC radio: “Yes, he is dead, as well as our assistant...
“Players injured, driver dead” after Togo bus attack
Posted by admin on Jan 09, 2010 | 1 Comment
THE Togo national team bus has been machine-gunned by Angolan rebels on the Congolese border ahead of the African Nations Cup.
Two players are reported to be injured and a Togolese sports ministry spokesman in Lome said that the bus driver had been killed in the attack. The Sparrow Hawks are in the country ahead of the African tournament, which gets under way on Sunday.
“The Angolan driver was killed on the spot,”...
